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Want to charge your phone from flat to full in 30 seconds? Who doesn’t. But don’t get too excited yet — Israeli startup StoreDot‘s bio-organic fast-charging battery tech, which utilizes quantum dot technology, is only a prototype right now.<p>It’s not a full capacity battery yet either. And they …

Architects in Amsterdam have begun construction on what they're calling the first full-sized 3D-printed house. Using what's essentially a large-scale version of a desktop 3D printer, Dus Architects is building what will eventually be a 13-room Dutch canal house made of interlocking plastic parts. …

The Israeli gesture-control company believes that hand and finger motions are a more versatile way to control wearable computers, and Lumus agreed.<p>BARCELONA, Spain -- One of the difficulties with wearable computing is that it can be hard to control devices that don't have a handy keyboard or touch …

Israeli startup Umoove is reaching out to developers in the Android camp, with the launch today of a beta SDK for Android devs wanting to use its face and eye tracking technology.<p>The SDK is not public, nor is it open to all — with Umoove picking and choosing only the app ideas it thinks will best …

If you thought the mathematical proofs you did in high school were long, you haven't seen the newest one out of the University of Liverpool — computer scientists Alexei Lisitsa and Boris Konev came up with a math proof that takes up a huge 13-gigabyte file, greater than all of Wikipedia's pages …

Camels are a familiar sight in the Bible, but researchers point out that in many instances they're actually out of place. As the <i>New York Times</i> reports, many biblical stories involving camels take place long before the animals were actually domesticated — researchers from Tel Aviv University used …

If Google's latest acquisition is anything to go by, entering a password on a website could soon be as easy as placing your smartphone near your computer. Israeli startup SlickLogin confirmed today it has become the latest company join Mountain View's ranks (although it'll work from Google's local …

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High-tech Israeli startups, fleeing the country to sell shares abroad at the fastest pace in six years, should be offered tax breaks and a reduction in bureaucracy to keep them home, a government panel said.<p>Companies valued at more than 200 million shekels ($56 million) will be offered the …

<i>Robert Verwaayen is a Dutch venture capitalist. He is currently setting up his own investment firm, RoBen, and was a principal with Prime Ventures.</i><p>As a startup hub, Amsterdam grabs the same amount of attention as the girl with braces at the high school dance. Slowly but surely, however, we have a …

<i>Noam Fine, co-Founder and CEO of Widdit, providing app developers engagement solutions over the mobile and Web platforms.</i><p>We read every day about new startups that have raised capital and have just recently launched their app or platform. Of course, a creative idea and raising funds is only half the …

Mendix, an app builder platform for the enterprise, has closed a $25 million Series B, led by Battery Ventures. Existing investor Prime Ventures also participated. Mendix raised a $13 million Series A back in 2011, according to CrunchBase. It was founded back in 2005.<p>Mendix’s platform aims to make …

Make way for another startup in the area of cybersecurity: Aorato, which has developed a behavior-monitoring firewall for Microsoft Active Directory services, is coming out of stealth today. At the same time, the Israel- and New York-based company is announcing funding of $10 million, with …

<b>Eindhoven, Netherlands</b> --<p>Let the robot race begin.<p>Expectations are high for RoboEarth, a new European-funded system to speed the development of human-serving robots. Scientists from five major European technical universities gathered in the Netherlands last week for its launch and to demonstrate …

17th century painter Johannes Vermeer has been an enigma ever since his work was discovered in the early 1900s. How did the artist manage to exercise such consummate control over tone and blur hundreds of years before the color photograph was invented? One theory involves a camera obscura — an …

<b>UPDATE:</b> Sources tell AllThingsD that the deal is not done yet, but could be drawing to a close.<p>Israeli news outlet Calcalist is reporting (in Hebrew) that Apple has acquired Tel Aviv-based 3D sensor technology company PrimeSense for $345 million. News of a potential deal emerged in July this year, …

Daan Roosegaarde unveils ambitious project as Beijing moves to crack down on air pollution<p><i>Smog descends upon Beijing. (Image credit: Michael Henley / Flickr)</i><p>Winter is fast descending upon China, and with it, thick clouds of smog. Last week, officials shut down schools and major roads in the …